Stock exchanges will have to play an active role to ensure the vibrant operations of Alternative Trading Board (ATB) launched to facilitate the growth of non-listed companies and other securities. Discussants said this on Wednesday at an online training programme held to discuss the activities and prospect...
Asian markets rose Thursday on
bargain-hunting by investors following a week of heavy losses due to anxiety
over the deepening US-China trade war. But tensions remained high, prompting a
rush on safe-haven assets such as bonds, gold and the Japanese yen. Bond yields
plunged on Wednesday as prices climbed, with the...
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been less for the key index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) even as bourses in other Asian and developed countries have been confronted with serious impacts. The country’s prime bourse, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), recorded a negative index return...
Bangladesh expects a bigger inflow of foreign direct investment in the days to come as different nations plan to relocate their factories to countries like Bangladesh to bring down cost amid a cash crunch caused by the pandemic, said Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday. In 2019, the...
In an undaunted move, the central bank yesterday instructed banks to not give any cash dividend to both sponsors and investors until September to boost their capacity to absorb the strain on their capital base from the ongoing economic dire straits. The move,...
With Covid-19 restricting physical movement, the stock market regulator and the management of the country's two bourses are gearing up for automation of its trading platforms and settlement systems. Officials of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchanges Commission (BSEC) and the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) confirmed this to...
Investors fled stocks for safe-haven assets yesterday after being spooked by the latest salvos fired in the global trade war. With US President Donald Trump announcing tariffs on all Mexican imports and China warning it would create a list of “unreliable” foreign companies, investors piled into...